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V won't start- *click*

I'm thinking starter, battery has enough power to light up the dash and play the radio, battery was replaced in 08. Car was running fine yesterday, parked it after work. Come out this morning and nothing but a loud click, doesn't crank at all.

Anyone ever jump start one of these? I'd love to avoid using a tow, thinking of waking up a friend to give me a push. Just not sure how fast I need to be going, haven't jumped a car in a while.

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If the battery is that old I would replace it before I did anything else. It is the number one cause of "no start" conditions, particularly if the condition is intermittent and you have already gotten your money's worth out of it. The second candidate is the wiring connection at the starter. After that is the starter/solenoid itself, but I would do some diagnosis before I started replacing parts.

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Yeah this is a hard fail, never faulted before and I've tried several times since 6am.

Only issue is I live in the city so need to get towed to a friends place so I can work on this. Was thinking of doing the battery as a precaution, this is my daily driver and only car so I need it to be reliable. I'll throw a charger on it and try to crank before I replace the starter but I need this thing to be done by the end of the day.

8 years in new england seems about right for the life of a starter- just got this car so I'm assuming its original until i get a look at it.

12 seems a lil low...find a friend thtll allow u to swap batteries and see if that's what it could be..mine did something similar and I replaced battery...ended up replacing starter shortly there after tho..are you getting battery drainage of any sort?

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Sometimes batteries will show full voltage but due to internal damage they lose all ability to deliver any substantial amperage. They'll power the interior okay but voltage drops to 5V when you try to crank the engine. Good luck and let us know what you find. And yes jump start it in 2nd... she's heavy though... i.e. 2 people to push it.

Have fun with that starter...and make sure you buy some heat wrap to put around it when you put it in..special order because of the ignition lead..its plastic and located inches from cat..hence the heat wrap..its do-able in the garage tho

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See attached.

Some report replacing the starter without removing the passenger side catalytic converter (which can be a project in itself), but others report not being able to get the starter out because of clearance issues. (I cannot say, since I have not pulled my starter.)

If I had someone willing to remove and replace the starter at a reasonable price, I would probably do so.